Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] a few moments " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 2 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 3 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 4 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 5 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
| 6 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |